🎹 A Town With An Ocean View Piano (Simplified)

Joe Hisaishi· Intermediate· 918 notes· Tempo 80 BPM· 45,700 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
Shadowy and elusive, never quite resolving, active and densely woven throughout, holding its emotional level to the end.
Minor Moderate tempo Moderate dynamics Busy texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
📖 Early Learners ✋ Average Hand Size
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
3
weeks to performance-ready
Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.
4hper week
18htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~4h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Intermediate
33 / 100
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Moderate - requires coordination between hands

918
Total Notes
29%
Interleaved
3.39
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 9/25
29% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
Note Density per Beat 5/30
Busiest beats: 5 notes/beat (avg 3.39) - comfortable density
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 6/15
Right: C4–B6 (35 st) | Left: E2–A4 (29 st)
Largest Interval Leap 6/10
19 st (1Oct+P5) - large leaps
# Chromatic Complexity 2/8
17% black-key notes - some accidentals
Polyphony / Voices 2/7
~2.1 notes active per beat (max 4) - occasional two-voice texture
Piece Length 3/5
3m 34s - medium length: sustained focus needed
🎚 Dynamics
f
Uniform f - very little dynamic contrast
Avg velocity 80/127  ·  Spread 0  ·  Range 80–80
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🎹 Note Range - Piano Keyboard
Upper dot = RH (Right Hand) Lower dot = LH (Left Hand) White dot on black key = sharp/flat note used
📐 Note Range per Hand  ·  Sheet Preview
🤚 Left Hand
LowestE2
HighestA4
Span29 st (2Oct+P4)
Notes467
Widest leap19 st  E4→A2
🖐 Right Hand
LowestC4
HighestB6
Span35 st (2Oct+M7)
Notes451
Widest leap15 st  E4→G5
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Max chord span: 4 semitones (M3)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  47 chords
Max chord span: 5 semitones (P4)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  5 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 2 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing. A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 2 runs · longest 5 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 3 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
25%
Repeated
Only 18 of 72 bars repeat — this piece is largely through-composed with mostly unique material throughout.
Repeated bar Unique bar
🎯 Suggested Practice Passages ?Each "passage" is 2 consecutive measures (ô nhịp). The algorithm scores every passage by note density and interval leaps, then picks the 3 hardest for focused practice.
The hardest passages in this piece — spend extra time here before running the full piece.
📍 Measures 47–48
Hardest
📍 Measures 50–51
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 52–53
3rd hardest